Immanuel Kant Knowledge Quotations

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

Philosophy stands in need of a science which shall determine the possibility, principles, and extent of human knowledge à priori.

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind... The understanding can intuit nothing, the senses can think nothing. Only through their union can knowledge arise.

Our knowledge springs from two fundamental sources of the mind; the first is the capacity of receiving representations (receptivity for impressions), the second is the power of knowing an object through these representations (spontaneity [in the production] of concepts).

All our knowledge begins with the senses,

There is nothing higher than reason.

We assume a common sense as the necessary condition of the universal communicability of our knowledge, which is presupposed in every logic and every principle of knowledge that is not one of skepticism.

Enlightenment is the liberation of man from his self-caused state of minority... Supere aude! Dare to use your own understanding!is thus the motto of the Enlightenment.

All human knowledge thus begins with intuitions, proceeds thence to concepts, and ends with ideas.